Samhain Thanksgiving Moon
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.”
| — | Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
“My fantasies are like wounds; they reveal my pathology.”
| — | James Hillman |
“Let us imagine the anima mundi [world soul] neither above the world encircling it as a divine and remote emanation of spirit, a world of powers, archetypes, and principles transcendent to things, nor within the material world as its unifying panpsychic life-principle. Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form.”
| — | James Hillman |
“First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony.”
| — | Confucius |
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
| — | Mark Twain |
“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”
| — | Mark Twain |
“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
| — | Mark Twain |
“Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.”
| — | Kurt Vonnegut |
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